Cheryl Iino-JueCheryl Iino-Jue is a sansei (third generation Japanese American) and the daughter of Bill Iino. Having grown up in Berkeley during the late 1960’s and 70’s she became active in the movements for social justice of that era. Her involvement with the Asian American movement in the S.F. Bay Area led her to the struggle to Fight for the International Hotel and the Lee Mah and Jung Sai Chinatown sweatshop workers’ fight for a union. After moving to Chicago in 1979 she became involved in the struggle to stop the demolition of public housing at CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) and the fight to stop the epidemic of police brutality. She recently retired from Northwestern University as an administrator of the Asian American Studies Program and is currently working on her family’s archives.
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Professor Dominique LicopsDominique Licops holds a Licence in Germanic Philology from Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), an M.A. in Literature from Commonwealth Countries from Leeds University (UK), a PhD. in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University, and a graduate certificate in Gender Studies, also from Northwestern University. Her doctoral dissertation is a study of metaphors of identity in Caribbean Francophone and Anglophone Literature. Her interests are in French and Francophone 20th century literatures and cultures, Caribbean Women Writers, and Comparative Approaches to Postcolonial and Gender Studies. Professor Licops is currently teaching a range of French language courses and courses on French and Francophone literatures and cultures in the French department and for the School of Professional Studies. She is the Administrator for the Paris Program in Critical Theory. She is a member of the Council on Language Instruction (CLI). She has been selected for the ASG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll in 2011-2012. Professor Licops guided and supervised Leila Narisetti's translation of the French letters for this project , serving as Leila's mentor in Northwestern University's Undergraduate Research Assistant Program in the summer of 2022.
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Leila Narisetti '25Leila Narisetti is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University. She began working with these archives when she started her Undergraduate Research Assisted Program in the summer of 2022. Since, she has been working closely with Cheryl to create a platform to share the research and archives. She was responsible for the translations, transcriptions and the researching, in addition to building the website. She is a History and French major with a concentration in the Middle East and North Africa. She also recently finished her Legal Studies minor requirements. She hopes to continue expanding this research and bring awareness to an interesting and seemingly hidden chapter of history.
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Professor Ji-Yeon YuhJi-Yeon Yuh (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. Her current projects include Asian Diasporas Digital Archive, a digital oral history repository at the Northwestern Library; “Performing History: Documenting and Enacting the Asian American Midwest,” an oral history and performance project with scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Humanities Without Walls consortium; Memories of War, an undergraduate research seminar and oral history project on the life narratives of Vietnamese and Korean Americans; and a book on Korean diasporas in China, Japan, and the United States. Active in community organizations, she is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, a board member of Korea Policy Institute, and former board president of KANWIN, a Korean American women's organization focusing on domestic violence. She is a native of Seoul and Chicago, a former journalist, and a fan of genre fiction.
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